This book contains quite a bit of history of the region now known as Karnaataka in this book. I have made honest efforts not to state anything that is not factual, but history being so difficult to be uniform, I can not say that everything in this book is just as it happened in the past. Language is only one of the tools that can be used in unifying people. But if the mother tongue of the people is not the same as that which is recognized as the OL, then there could be clashes. Imposition of Kannada by the Kannada enthusiasts upon the linguistic minorities in the state could be resented and...